Shenzhen Daily 2023-02-28

①Getting a pie from the sky is becoming a reality in the city as online delivery platform Meituan has been allowed to start drone delivery service（无人机送餐服务）, Shenzhen Evening News reported.

②At Galaxy World in Longgang District, a reporter from the newspaper watched how a meal has been delivered by the drone on Thursday. The drone slowly landed and a door above the Meituan Intelligent Dining Cabinet（储藏柜）opened slowly, where the drone put the meal box inside the cabinet.

③“It takes about 15 minutes to place the order and receive the meal. A lot of people have tried the drone delivery service here,” said a woman who just took her meal box out from the cabinet.

④During the year 2022, food and drinks such as noodles, fruits, coffee and milk tea and even flowers have been delivered through Meituan’s drone delivery system, the report said.

⑤The company said that as of last year, it had completed over 100,000 drone deliveries. Meituan started to explore drone delivery service in 2017 and started the try in early 2021. The service has an average delivery time of 12 minutes, which is less than traditional delivery methods, according to the company.

⑥There are only a few cities in the world with the advantages of drone delivery service, and Shenzhen is taking the lead in China, according to the report. However, there are still some problems with this kind of service.

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Big Issue Produced by Pupils Big Issue has launched (发行) a special 24-page edition (版本) created by school children recently. Big Issue is a weekly magazine launched in 1991 to help homeless people. Pupils in 13 schools across the country have started selling the special edition and will give the money they raise to charities. _________________ The Richardson Primary School has created a classroom in a train carriage (车厢), marking 300 years since it was opened. The SON EXPRESS carriage, which is no longer moving, includes a library, a place to eat, and another learning space. The carriage will help the school to teach STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and math). Students describe it as “magical”. Celebrating the Daily Mile On 28 April, the Daily Mile had its 10th birthday. It’s a global (全球的) movement designed to get children exercising every day. To mark the event, more than 320,000 students from 1,340 schools around the world completed a mile. One kid said, “Running a mile every day with my friends builds up my fitness.”

4 . 10-year-old Mike is being interviewed on TV about his own cooking.

Mike, when did you start cooking?

When I was four, I became interested in cooking. I started helping my mum in the kitchen when I was five. At the age of six, I could make vegetable salad. One year later, I could make a fruit pie all by myself.

What’s the best way to get good at cooking?

I don’t go to cooking classes. Sometimes I watch videos on the phone. I often read books about coking actually. I think the best way to improve my cooking is trying it again and again. If it is no good, I’ll do it differently next time.

What do your parents think of your cooking?

They’re glad that they don’t have to make dinner every day, and they enjoy my cooking-usually! But, you can’t make everyone happy all the time.

Finally, what’s it like being on TV?

It’s interesting. In fact, I really enjoy myself making the shows. They’re watched by millions, but I still find it strange when people I don’t know say hello to me in the street.

6 . The music band Coldplay is taking actions to protect the environment. This includes using their fans’ energy to help provide electricity for their performances. In this way, they use electricity without adding carbon gases (碳气体) to the air. The band hopes to cut the amount of CO₂ given out by its business activities by 50 percent.

The Coldplay stars have added special dance floors and energy-storing bicycles to their latest world tour performance. The purpose is to get fans to help produce electricity by dancing and riding. Each dance floor can support many people. It creates electricity when people move on it. Each of the bikes can create an average of 200 watts (瓦特) of electricity. In order to encourage fans to dance or ride more during the performance, they even have competitions to find out which group of fans can create the most electricity.

“Being green is a good business model. That’s what we’d like to show,” said Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin. “The changes will bring a sense of belonging to the fans. Everything in our show is planned to bring everyone into the same group, singing together. It makes us feel part of a community.”

Coldplay has taken other steps to protect the environment. One of its tour stages (舞台) uses recycled steel. The band also hopes to set up the world’s first tour battery (电池) system, made from 40 recycled electric car batteries. The hope is to power the whole show with batteries.

“It’s very expensive to try these things for the first time,” said Martin, “but we are very happy that we are changing.”

Coldplay is just one music group working to help the environment. Some other famous bands are also taking such steps.

7 . At 9 o’clock on December 10th,2021, with the sound of a whistle(哨),train G2197 slowly ran out of Ganzhou West Station and headed south to Shenzhen North Station. This marked the opening of the Ganzhou-Shenzhen high-speed railway, which includes 14 stations, with a total length of 436 kilometers. The total travel time between the two cities has been cut from 6 hours to 2 hours.

The building of the Ganshen high-speed railway was filled with challenges. As the railway travels through the   mountainous areas of southern Jiangxi and northern Guangdong, workers had to be careful with many cultural landscapes(风景)and protection areas. When it was completed, 323 bridges and 157 tunnels( 隧 道 )were built, taking up 90% of the total length.

By taking the new route, it is convenient for passengers to visit the beautiful places along the line. For example, you can walk into the Shenzhen Museum to review the city’s development, go to Heyuan to experience the amazing Wanlv Lake, or explore the ancient Tongtian Rock Caves in Ganzhou.

Ganzhou is known as the”Orange Capital of the World” .With the high-speed railway’s operation, more travellers from Guangdong have arrived and Ganzhou oranges are getting more popular.

“It used to take me six hours to drive home on Fridays, but now I can get home in time to pick up my child from school. What’s more, I can even drop him off at school on Monday mornings before I go to work,”said Chen Yu, a Ganzhou local who works in Shenzhen.

Chen’s life is a typical one that has changed with the railway. More and more wonderful changes along the high-speed railway are taking place.

Chen Gang and his son, Chen Lihao, were honored as heroes recently at China University of Geosciences (Wuhan). The father and son pair reached the top of Mount Qomolangma at about 10:30 a. m. on April 30, 2022.

During their journey to the top of the world, 8,849 meters above the sea level, they carried out scientific research and collected a large number of samples of ice, snow, plants and rocks.

Chen Gang is a professor of surveying and mapping at the university. In 2020, he won the title “Good teacher in Hubei province”. Chen Lihao, who is in his 20s, is a student at China University of Geosciences (Beijing). He is a national first-class mountain climber and a national second-class rock climber.

Huang Xiaomei, Party secretary of the university in Wuhan, and Wang Yanxin, the school’s president, called on teachers and students to learn from the father and son. They said all teachers and students should closely connect their personal futures with national needs and climb their new peaks (山峰) in scientific research and daily life.

Cheng Jun, Party secretary of another university, said, “As a scientist, Chen’s successful climb of Qomolangma has great meaning for the study of the mountain.”

The father said he would closely connect love with his job, go on carrying out scientific research in the areas where the country needs it and write papers about his motherland in the future.